picture books

Scholarship

I received a PhD in English Literature, specializing in Renaissance Studies, in 2014 from University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

My dissertation focused on Queen Elizabeth I’s speeches and representations of queens and mothers in literature, specifically Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, Sidney’s The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (both the Old Arcadia and the New Arcadia), and Spenser’s The Faerie Queene.